Description
Introduction - advocacy and learning disability, Robin Jackson and Barry Gray; principles and types of advocacy, Jan Walmsley; intergraty and advocacy, Michael Kendrick; exploring the role of values in the management of advocacy schemes, Tim Clement; professional consciousness and conflict in advocacy, Colin Goble; the legal context of the advocacy service, Deborah Baillie and Veronica Strachan; thoughtsfrom a UK citizen advocacy scheme, Mike Pochin; self advocay and research, Dorothy Atkinson; the role of self advocacy - stories from a self advocacy group through the experiences of its members, Fred Spedding, Elizabeth Harkness, Louise Townson, Andy Docherty, Niall McNulty and Rohhss Chapman; the neglected dimension - advocacy and the families of children with learning disabilities, Nick Pike; advocacy with people with communication difficulties, Janet Scott and Jane Larcher; some observations on the American advocacy scheme, Michael Kendrick; better and worse - overview of formal advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities in Australia, Dimity Peter; advocacy - the last frontier in special education?, Colleen Brown.